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Long-Time HELP Democrat Sen. Barbara Mikulski Plans To Retire By 2017

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D), the body’s longest-serving female Senator, former Appropriations Committee Chair and advocate of quality and comparative effectiveness provisions in the Affordable Care Act, recently announced her plans not to seek re-election in 2016 and retire.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., an architect of quality and comparative effectiveness provisions in the Affordable Care Act, recently announced she will not run for re-election in 2016, retiring instead at the end of her fifth term.

The longest-serving female Senator, Mikulski told her supporters March 2 that she wants to spend the next two years campaigning for her Maryland constituents – particularly for equal pay provisions,...

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